Linux "enable EUI-64 token format"

[Elliott Norsa]

EIU-64 refers to the format of the 64 low-weight bits of an IP-v6 
address (128 bits), known as interface-id.

IP-v6 defines an auto-configuration mechanism in rfc462, for which
EUI-64 token format is needed, in order to generate an unique
IP-v6 address.

For more details see RFC's 2373 and 2374...



Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> Can anyone explain or provide references to what the linux 2.4 kernel
> option CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64 "Enable EUI-64 token format" means?
> 
> The kernel config help says that "6bone ... is moving to a new
> aggregatable address format and a new link local address assignment
> (EUI-64)".
> 
> Is this documented in RFCs for example? If so, which ones?
> 
> I'm not having any problems - I just want to know what it means :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
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